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The recordings on this page are carefully selected to bring you
the finest examples of traditional Hardanger
fiddle music available.

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item number found at the end of each item description, and include
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AmeriKappleik
Live! is a two-CD set of the best of AmeriKappleik. This
CD includes performances from Hauk Buen, Leif Rygg, Vidar Lande, Torgeir
Straand and others, as well as new compositions for the Hardanger fiddle.
This CD can be ordered here using PayPal (credit cards accepted). Price $20 (members & non-members) [MU-AK1].

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Hallvard & Torleiv
BjørgumFire of the Amazons (Skjoldmøyslaget)

You can start to gauge Hallvard Bjørgum's celebrity in Setesdal
when
you see displays of this recording next to the check-out stands
in the grocery stores. This is the most important collection of
Setesdal
folk music on one CD. Most of the tunes are played by Hallvard
Bjørgum, considered by some to be the best living hardingfele
player.
There are also tracks played by Torleiv, Hallvard's father
(1921-1990) and a master in his own right, on the ordinary fiddle
in hardingfele style (a specialty in Setesdal), and some jaw harp
and
stev-singing. Winner of the Spelemannsprisen (Norwegian Grammy
award) in
1990. CD [SYLVCD2]

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Torleiv
Bolstad

Feletona oppunde Bitihodn (Fiddle Tones on Bitihodn Mountain)

Bolstad (1915-79) dominated the Valdres fiddle scene. Simply put, if one had
to choose a core collection of only five hardingfele recordings, this should
be one of them. The album includes many very danceable Valdres springar tunes,
plus gamal bonde and lydarlåttar (listening tunes). It is Bolstad's only
commercial release. CD [HCD7041].

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Knut
Buen
Håvards
draum (Håvard's Dream)

Typically polished, and at the same time subtle, performances by Knut
Buen of slåttar handed down from Håvard Giboen (1809-1873).
The B
side contains some particularly spooky pieces in remote tunings. The
liner notes are in Norwegian and English. CD [BKCD3].

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Knut and Hauk BuenFykerud'n (Fykerud's Tune)

Knut and Hauk take turns performing selections, including romantic
listening tunes, springars, and gangars from the repertory of Lars
Fykerud (1860-1902), one of Telemark's greatest players. 27 tunes.
Time: 75 min. Detailed, informative liner notes in Norwegian and English
with photos. CD [BKCD4]

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Knut and Hauk BuenMyllargutens minne (In Memory of Myllarguten)

This CD contains 27 tunes by Myllarguten, in masterful recordings.
The performers, Hauk and Knut Buen, are, in the opinion of many,
the finest players in the Telemark tradition today. Hauk was the
featured
master teacher at the 1997, 2006 and 2009 HFAA Workshops. The recording quality
is excellent. The CD is not intended to be used for dance; there
is no
foot-tromping audible. But those who can dance to the rhythm of the
fiddle itself will find numerous powerful dance tunes here. There
is a short booklet with the CD, in both Norwegian and English,
describing Myllarguten's life, his teachers, his connection with
the violinist Ole Bull, and the fiddlers who passed his tunes down
to the
present. CD [BKCD2].

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Knut and Hauk BuenSpel til dans (Playing for Dancing)

This CD is a compilation of the best of the four-cassette Spel
til dans series from Knut and Hauk. This is classic
Telemark springar and gangar for dancing, with energetic performances
and a steady foot-tapping rhythm. 24 tunes. Time: 74 min. Liner notes
in Norwegian, with photos. CD [BKCD10].

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Sigmund EikåsJølstring

Sigmund
Eikås
is the star fiddler of the Sunnfjord area of Western
Norway and the best player of the Jølster springar. This
recording includes 22 springar, rull, and halling tunes, of which
ten are
played live for dancers. CD [HCD7101]

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Knut HamreFargespel (Playing in Colors)

Knut Hamre from Hardanger in Western Norway has won the Landskappleik
more than any other fiddler in recent times. This CD features 23
of his best springar, rull, and listening tunes. The booklet is in
both
Norwegian and English. CD [HCD7092]

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Jens
Myro and Øyvind BrabandtHallingspringar

The Hallingdal style is fast and intricate, and the dancing
passionate and sometimes dangerous. You can hear dancers pounding
the floor in these recordings while the performers play three pieces
in
duet and the others solo. This recording pairs the great master fiddler Myro and his then gifted student Brabandt.
A
great dance tape.[This title is currently unavailable.]

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Sigbjørn
B. Osa

Sigbjørn Osa (1910-1990) was a master of both the violin
and the
hardingfele. He was charm itself on the stage, and toured widely
as "
Norway's musical ambassador to the world." The selections
on this CD
are primarily gamaldans tunes — waltzes, reinlenders, and
so on — rather
than the older bygdedans music-springar, gangar, etc. But what
waltzes! And there are reinlenders, hambos and mazurkas to match.
The
album also includes his famous Bjølleslåtten ("The
Bell Tune"), and
Halvorsen's Fanitullen ("The Devil's Tune") for hardingfele
and
symphony orchestra. About two-thirds of the tunes on this CD feature
the hardingfele accompanied by guitar and bass or by a larger ensemble.
CD [BKCD1].

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Olav ØyalandHaugelåt (The Tune from the Mound)

Olav Øyaland is the greatest living master of the Tinn
style and the
inheritor of the tradition of Knut Dahle via his grandson Johannes.
Tinn is tucked in a remote corner of northern Telemark. Olav's
playing is filled with haunting, antique scales, intricate
ornamentation, and an incisive rhythm that few today come close
to matching. 28 tunes. Time: 73 min. CD [BKCD9].[This title is currently unavailable.]

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Leif RyggLengt (Longing)

Leif
Rygg, the featured
instructor at the 1998
HFAA Workshop, is one
of the greatest living players and is a multiple winner of the
Landskappleik, the Norwegian national fiddling championship.
This recording demonstrates his total mastery of the style
of his home
area of Voss in the Western fjord-region of Norway-Vestlandet. He plays a variety
of springar, rull, and listening tunes, mostly unaccompanied,
where
the
gorgeous, bell-like sound of his hardingfele can ring out without
hindrance. CD [SFCD1].[This title is currently unavailable.]

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Lars SkjervheimHeimlengt (Longing for Home)

Hardingfele music from one of the greatest masters of the Voss
style. Lars Skjervheim was the teacher and inspiration for
most of
the younger fiddlers from his area of Western Norway, including
Leif
Rygg. Lars is joined on four tunes by Leif and Håkon Høgemo
on
hardingfele, Olav Steffen Eide on accordion and Hans Christian
Holm on bass. 20 tunes. Time: 54 min. Liner notes in Norwegian,
with
photos. CD [BKCD13].

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Jens A. MyroHallingspel

Jens A. Myro's electrifying dance fiddling is filled with raw energy,
and the razor-sharp rhythms are matched by few if any today. This
retrospective includes 22 of his best hallingspringar and laus
(halling) recordings from a long career as Hallingdal's best dance
fiddler. Six of the cuts are recorded while playing live for dancing.
CD [HCD7130].

Knut Buen displays his total mastery of traditional Telemark-style
dance fiddling. Recorded live during dance parties and teaching
sessions with Karin Brennesvik's Småjondølane dance troupe
and
attendees of her Telemark Experience dance week, the recordings
capture the excitement of the springar, with sounds of dancers and
the stamping of the fiddler's feet. Knut shows his creative and
improvisatory powers at full force; six of the 19 telespringar and
telegangar cuts are Knut's famous medleys or "mixes" of
tunes. Notes
in Norwegian and English, 70 min. 23 sec. CD [BKCD20].

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Vidar LandeSlåttar / Tunes in the Tradition of Eivind D. Aakhus

Vidar Lande, master teacher at the 1999, 2000, and 2003 HFAA Annual
Workshops, is not only a superb player and teacher but also
possesses
an encyclopedic knowledge of the hardingfele tradition. Vidar
presents 35
tunes from the repertory of the great Setesdal tradition bearer
Eivind Aakhus, about one-third of Aakhus' known repertory, and
includes extensive liner notes in English and Norwegian. Includes
gamaldans (waltz and reinlender) tunes that Aakhus learned in
Minnesota as well as old traditional setesdalgangar tunes, played
by Vidar on hardingfele, regular violin, and Setesdal fiddle
(a fiddle
with sympathetic strings, unique to Setesdal). CD [VLCD0193].

Vidar Lande presents 34 tunes from the repertory of another major
Setesdal tradition bearer. On this excellent CD Vidar attempts
to
present the tunes as closely as possible in the style in which
Rysstad originally played them. Like Aakhus, Rysstad also
spent time
in America and learned many tunes from Sam Sorenson (1870-1947)
from Bygland, Minnesota. Rysstad was also greatly influenced
by Telemark-
and Valdres-style hardingfele technique and introduced many
elements from these styles into his playing. Contains a short
English
summary of the extensive Norwegian text. CD [VLCD0295].[This title is currently out of stock.]

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Håkon HøgemoSolo

Håkon Høgemo, two-time winner of the Landskappleik
and teacher at the
2000 HFAA Workshops, is a thoroughly traditional player with a
gorgeous tone and impeccable interpretations of traditional tunes
from his home area of Sogn and from Voss and Hardanger to the
south.
Solo is a technically superb recording, and includes many standards
of the Vestlandet repertory, including Hei so dansa jento mi after
Sjur Hesjevoll of Jostedal, Vetlebulken after Anders Kjerland, and
Havbrusen and Nøringen after Lars Skjervheim. Also included
are a few
lesser-known tunes from fiddlers such as Anders Nedreli of Jostedal
and Sjur Eldegard of Årdal. All of the tunes are performed
alone by
Høgemo except for two, which feature two hardingfeler playing
in
harmony. CD [NORD0036].[This title is currently out of stock.]

Knut Myrann

Veneflamma

Knut, twice a Hardanger fiddle champion, is from Nore in Numedal. He later moved to Telemark and he now lives in Hallingdal.CD [BFCD1010]

Odd Bakkerud

Hardingfele

A double CD of the music of Odd Bakkerud (1931-1989), most recorded between 1959 and 1971 by Norwegian national radio (a few were from private tapes or recorded live at competitions). The material is chiefly springars and halling-tunes from Hallingdal, but the second CD also includes some pieces from Telemark, Numedal and Valdres. CD [TA16CD]